been no Lolita at all had I not loved‚ one summer‚ an initial girl-child.” This girl-child being Annabel‚ in this line‚ he admits to having a major problem‚ making the reader wonder what if she didn’t die? His admission seduces the reader into feeling sorry for his mental anguish because perhaps there could have been a way to prevent his pedophilic behavior. Annabel’s death at the “nymphet phase” froze his perception of ideal lovers at that specific point in time‚ and although he aged‚ he remained mesmerized
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Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Faith knows I will keep my promises‚ believing that things you are hoping for are as real as things you can already see. I remember being a first time counselor in Mentone and wondering if I was making the right decision‚ working 500 miles away from home. I did not even have a car when I accepted the job and was wondering how I would even get to camp. So‚ I decided to buy a car and recruited some friends to work
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poem. It is a lyric poem that expresses Blake’s awe over the might and ferocity of the “Tyger.” The poem is primarily about a “Tyger” with its intense and frightening aspects‚ and Blake’s awestruck questions for the “Tyger.” For example‚ he asks‚ “What immortal hand or eye dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” (24). This poem is twenty-four lines long with stanzas two‚ three‚ four‚ and five consisting of two couplets each. Blake also uses allusion in “The Tyger.” “Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”
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in the day they used it as a good adjective in describing a person and how they were acting or feeling. As for society‚ throughout the centuries and time the word has started to evaporate the meaning of cheerful to something completely opposite of what it used to mean. As for gay meaning happy‚ it seems to no longer exist; today people will rarely say “Glen is having such a gay time on his vacation in Hawaii”. If anyone were to say that‚ it would give off negative or confusion to the person or people
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In the story “Follow the Water” by Jennifer L. Holm a girl named Georgie is dragged out to mars with her parents who are there to search for water. To live on mars you need to know a lot of information which can be found in the article “What Would it Take to Live Here” by Mackenzie Carro. On the way to mars Georgie talks about how on the six month trip there she read a book called Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. In “ What would it take to live here” a realistic time to get to mars is nine months
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inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This is Atticus’s way of teaching his kids that you cannot judge people without knowing them from the inside out and that there is always more than how you view a person from the outside. This trick especially helps his daughter‚ Scout. In the beginning of the novel‚ the lesson applies to Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill when they are playing the Boo Radley game. They heard many rumors about Boo Radley and what he has been doing all these years inside his house. Then
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dissecting the Lord’s prayer. It gave us good perspective to what it means. It encourages me that in the third century they were asking the question‚ if God knows what you are going to ask‚ why bother to pray? It shows there are things we will never understand and remain a mystery but I like the response one had to that which was‚ “God knows‚ of course‚ what we are going to say and do‚ but God has decided that He will work out His proposes through what we decide to say and do.” It’s still has its confusion
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A Bottle of Wine Too Much "In pace requiescat" meaning may he rest in peace‚ in Italian. Is the last words of Montresor‚ from "The cask of Amontillado‚" which symbolizes victory in a sad sense. In this story there are only a few objects that conflict with the characters. For example‚ Montresor has contextual and universal symbolism. But Fortunato has only one noticeable symbolism‚ which is cultural. Both Montresor and Fortunato have symbols in the story that can show relationships with each
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down upon all who view him. The frown and cold command also do not add to the melody of the poem because they do not rhyme with any other verses. For example‚ the end word of the verse “Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone” (Shelley line 2) does not have a corresponding syllable sound to another verse; “Half sunk a shattered visage lies‚ whose frown‚” (Shelley line 4). Shelley wrote the ballad with a rhyme scheme of a traditional Shakespearean sonnet so line 2 and 4 of the poem should have
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natural world through observation and experiment. In the short story of “Follow the Water” many of the scientific facts about Mars can be found in the article “What Would it Take To Live There.” The first fact in “Follow the Water” is the deadly radiation that is found on Mars. “The cabin is made of thick black plastic‚ sturdy enough to protect us from the solar radiation‚ which can kill you—give you terrible skin cancer. That’s what the Firsts found out. Some of them had to have their noses removed.”
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